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Bone Sickness
DVD/APPROX. 104 MINS/2004/USA UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 104 MINS/2004/USA UNRATED
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Alex McNetti (Rich George) is suffering from a rare degenerative bone disease. His wife Kristen (Darya Zabinski) is stressed out because she cannot
afford to take Alex to the doctors to get treated. Alex's best friend Thomas (Brian Paulin) rushes to his aid and tries to find an alternative medicine
before the disease gets any worse. Thomas works at the local morgue, so he takes body parts of the deceased back home and grinds them up to
feed to Alex, hoping to cure the disease. Unfortunately, the so-called "cure" doesn't work. Alex gets sicker and begins spewing up blood that is
infested with worms and maggots. Before you know it, the dead begin to rise from their graves and Alex, Kristen and Thomas find their homes
surrounded by flesh-eating zombies.
When I began watching Bone Sickness, I thought, "FUCK! Not a Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things rip-off!" But it turns out this
assumption was totally wrong. At the beginning of this film it showed an axe-wielding maniac going berserk throughout the neighbourhood. Then
we meet Alex, a very very sick man, who is still walking, eating and even taking a shit, but who is also coughing up blood with maggots in it. That's
pretty much all you see for the first 40 minutes or so along with Thomas trying to find a cure for his friend and Kristen being stressing out (relieving
some of her stress by masturbating). I do believe they should have edited and cut a bit of this shit from the start. I got so bored I nearly turned
the DVD off, but no, I was told to watch it to the very end because the film slowly picks up, and it indeed does. The zombies begin rising up out of
their graves, and slowly make their way to people's homes. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, house by house, the zombies devour anything and
anyone that gets in their way.
The zombies reminded me very much of Fulci's zombies. Now, this isn't a bad thing, in fact it's a fucking good thing. I am sick of seeing fast-moving
zombie films, especially when they rise from their resting places. Director Brian Paulin (who also plays Thomas) decides to follow Fulci's type of
zombies instead, which I am like fucking gobsmacked. The special effects on the zombies looked so fucking awesome for a independent film, it had
me sitting on the edge of my seat screaming "FUCK YEAH" at the top of my lungs while I watch the dead bastards rip and tear open every poor son
of a bitch who got in their way. Then "BOOM!" the cops rock up to see what all the commotion is and find Alex's home overrun by zombies. The
SWAT team heads in, Dawn Of The Dead style. I ain't going to go into too much detail and give it away, but I will tell you that you DON'T want to
miss this film if you are a huge fan of Fulci and Romero.
For a bunch of unknowns, the acting is somewhat borderline. It wasn't extremely good or extremely bad but it was still entertaining to watch and
doesn't leave you bored. Once you get to Darya Zabinski's masturbating scene (well, more of a topless scene) you will forget all about the
borderline acting. If anyone stole the spotlight, though, it was Brian Paulin. Since he was the director, he knew what he wanted and it felt like he
wrote the role of Thomas for himself.
Brian Paulin's Bone Sickness is one of the sickest and vilest zombie splatterfests I have actually enjoyed in a long time. Though the film does drag
at the start, it finishes by putting a smile on any gorehound's dial. To sum up this movie for you, it's as easy as remembering your reaction when
viewing Romero's Dawn Of The Dead or Fulci's Zombie for the first time. If you want to experience that feeling once again, buy Bone Sickness on
DVD right now. You wont be sorry that's for damn sure!
afford to take Alex to the doctors to get treated. Alex's best friend Thomas (Brian Paulin) rushes to his aid and tries to find an alternative medicine
before the disease gets any worse. Thomas works at the local morgue, so he takes body parts of the deceased back home and grinds them up to
feed to Alex, hoping to cure the disease. Unfortunately, the so-called "cure" doesn't work. Alex gets sicker and begins spewing up blood that is
infested with worms and maggots. Before you know it, the dead begin to rise from their graves and Alex, Kristen and Thomas find their homes
surrounded by flesh-eating zombies.
When I began watching Bone Sickness, I thought, "FUCK! Not a Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things rip-off!" But it turns out this
assumption was totally wrong. At the beginning of this film it showed an axe-wielding maniac going berserk throughout the neighbourhood. Then
we meet Alex, a very very sick man, who is still walking, eating and even taking a shit, but who is also coughing up blood with maggots in it. That's
pretty much all you see for the first 40 minutes or so along with Thomas trying to find a cure for his friend and Kristen being stressing out (relieving
some of her stress by masturbating). I do believe they should have edited and cut a bit of this shit from the start. I got so bored I nearly turned
the DVD off, but no, I was told to watch it to the very end because the film slowly picks up, and it indeed does. The zombies begin rising up out of
their graves, and slowly make their way to people's homes. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, house by house, the zombies devour anything and
anyone that gets in their way.
The zombies reminded me very much of Fulci's zombies. Now, this isn't a bad thing, in fact it's a fucking good thing. I am sick of seeing fast-moving
zombie films, especially when they rise from their resting places. Director Brian Paulin (who also plays Thomas) decides to follow Fulci's type of
zombies instead, which I am like fucking gobsmacked. The special effects on the zombies looked so fucking awesome for a independent film, it had
me sitting on the edge of my seat screaming "FUCK YEAH" at the top of my lungs while I watch the dead bastards rip and tear open every poor son
of a bitch who got in their way. Then "BOOM!" the cops rock up to see what all the commotion is and find Alex's home overrun by zombies. The
SWAT team heads in, Dawn Of The Dead style. I ain't going to go into too much detail and give it away, but I will tell you that you DON'T want to
miss this film if you are a huge fan of Fulci and Romero.
For a bunch of unknowns, the acting is somewhat borderline. It wasn't extremely good or extremely bad but it was still entertaining to watch and
doesn't leave you bored. Once you get to Darya Zabinski's masturbating scene (well, more of a topless scene) you will forget all about the
borderline acting. If anyone stole the spotlight, though, it was Brian Paulin. Since he was the director, he knew what he wanted and it felt like he
wrote the role of Thomas for himself.
Brian Paulin's Bone Sickness is one of the sickest and vilest zombie splatterfests I have actually enjoyed in a long time. Though the film does drag
at the start, it finishes by putting a smile on any gorehound's dial. To sum up this movie for you, it's as easy as remembering your reaction when
viewing Romero's Dawn Of The Dead or Fulci's Zombie for the first time. If you want to experience that feeling once again, buy Bone Sickness on
DVD right now. You wont be sorry that's for damn sure!
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